“Wringing his hands like a Dickensian schoolmaster, Gates was
his normal, humorless self. He followed the script and managed to
sabotage the feeble jokes with an unerring lack of timing.”
“The endless show chiefly consisted of benchmarks casting the
new operating system in a glowing light. Some of the more
technical journalists in the audience afterwards claimed some of
the benchmarks to be highly suspect.“
“About an hour in, many of the reporters sitting in the front
rows had run out of steam. Most had stopped writing, some were
fidgeting with their watches and one had her head in her
hands.”